Get ready for a face full of snow, sweat, and high altitude endurance at the 2015 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour – heading to the UK early next year.
The Banff Tour has a reputation that’s fast becoming legendary. It brings together the outdoors and adventure community for a night of inspiration and reignites peoples’ passion to get outside – whatever their sport, whatever their level.
“More than stunning climbing, skiing, biking, and paddling films – there’s something special about the spirit of the Banff collection,” says UK Tour Director, Nell Teasdale. “Banff Mountain Festival stories are about reaching beyond ourselves – about people pushing the boundaries of what they can achieve.”
Highlights include:
SUN DOG
The star of this snow film is two years old and has to sleep outside in the cold snow, rather than inside the ski hut with the other skiers. He is a dog called Conga, and as he carves new lines through untouched snow in the stunning Patagonian mountain range in South America – he proves that the joy of deep powder snow need not only be enjoyed by human riders.
THE RIDGE
World renowned trials rider Danny MacAskill is back! He returns to his native home of the Isle of Skye in Scotland for a new challenge: riding a mountain bike on the notorious death-defying Cuillin Ridgeline. A extraordinary film made to be experienced on the big screen!
DRAWN
Four years, four cardinal points, four epic adventures. Acclaimed climber and artist Jeremy Collins embarks on four journeys, from the Venezuelan Amazon, to the China-Mongolian Border, to the northern reaches of Canada, and to Yosemite Valley in California. Played out across three continents, this powerful adventure changes everything.
SUFFERFEST 2: DESERT ALPINE
Less than a year after enchaining the 15 tallest peaks in California, by bike, Alex Honnold and Cedar Wright are at it again. This time they embark on an ambitious goal to climb 45 of the American Southwest’s most iconic desert towers, via their most difficult routes. Linking it all together is an epic bike journey that takes them through Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. This movie has it all, including: gale force winds, hard climbing, snow in the desert, a puppy, huge phallic towers, loose rock, and Alex Honnold’s bare ass. What more could you ask for?
For tickets and information visit www.banff-uk.com
(Photo credits: Kennan Harvey, Corey Rich (Red Bull Content Pool), Jeremy Collins, Danny MacAskill)